Photoshop CS4 Image Adjustments in Depth: Tonal values

By Jan Kabili

Photoshop CS4's adjustment features offer unparalleled opportunities to correct and manipulate images. In Photoshop CS4: Image Adjustments in Depth, senior trainer Jan Kabili explains how to use all the major Photoshop adjustment features. She shares the best techniques for adjusting image quality, and shows how to use the new Adjustments panel to streamline a photo correction workflow. Jan also demonstrates multiple ways to eliminate color casts, and explains how to use the new On-Image Curves control to adjust brightness and color. This course offers a detailed look at the techniques photographers and designers use to master image adjustments in Photoshop.

In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses correcting tonal values, which are the darks, lights, and midtones that make up the underlying tonal structure of every image, whether it is a color photography or a black and white image.

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Jan Kabili is senior trainer and evangelist at lynda.com. She has authored numerous books on Adobe software, including How to Wow: Photoshop CS2 for the Web, Photoshop CS Complete Course, Photoshop Elements Complete Course, and Photoshop 7 ImageReady Hands?on Training for the Web (with Lynda Weinman). In addition to her lynda.com training videos, she has written many articles for leading software publications such as Macworld, Photoshop User, and Mac Design magazines. Jan has not only contributed to the Adobe Classroom, but she is a published photographer and digital artist, with a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a law degree from Stanford Law School. Related Keywords:Adobe Photoshop CS4 training, Photoshop Image Adjustments, Histogram Panel, digital imaging, image editing, Tonal values, layer masking, layer comps, and clipping layers